OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 4:5

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Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

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Verse 5. Scarlet. Lit. “yellow;” croceis. Bible.—Hebrew means purple. Those who have been educated in the most delicate manner, are forced to feed on the most disgusting things. 4 Kennicott. 6:25 and 18:27. Deuteronomy 28:54.

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